by Global Development Institute | Aug 12, 2020 | Comment, Uncategorized
Social protection programs can facilitate progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) but can also create trade-offs across divergent social and environmental goals that can undermine their effectiveness, say the authors of new research published in the...
by Global Development Institute | Aug 10, 2020 | Uncategorized
The story so far These blogs offer a running commentary on how 60 low-income households in central Bangladesh who volunteer as ‘diarists’ in our daily financial diary project have coped with the pandemic. The first blog in this series was written just after a ‘corona...
by Global Development Institute | Jul 28, 2020 | Uncategorized
Pete Jones, Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Social Sciences, The University of Manchester, Jackie Carter, Co-director University of Manchester Q-Step Centre, School of Social Sciences, The University of Manchester, Jaco Renken, Co-director Centre for Digital...
by Global Development Institute | Jul 20, 2020 | Uncategorized
Dr Shamel Azmeh, Lecturer in International Development, Global Development Institute In recent decades, a growing number of books and documentaries have attempted to understand globalisation through following the journey of “things” across the world. The Travels of a...
by Global Development Institute | Jul 15, 2020 | Uncategorized
The story so far The first blog in this series was written just after a ‘corona lockdown’ was enforced in Bangladesh on 26th March 2020. It discussed the reaction to the shock of the 60 low-income households in central Bangladesh who volunteer as ‘diarists’ in our...
by Global Development Institute | Jul 8, 2020 | Uncategorized
Professor David Fielding joined the Global Development Institute earlier this year. We caught up with him about his research interests. What did you do before coming to Manchester? For the last 15 years, I’ve been at the University of Otago in New Zealand as...
